Women4Cyber Registry

With my work I aim to raise awareness of the largely invisible obstacles that are preventing women from taking up jobs in the technology and cyber security sector. I frequently organize events and debates around this issue, with female role models that can also serve as an example for girls who consider pursuing STEM programs.

CISA® - CISM® - CRISC®
Information Risk Management
GRC
Data Protection & Privacy
Information Security
Lead Auditor ISO 27001 & ISO 20000

- Telecommunication Engineer at University of Vigo.
- Cybersecurity Consultant, focused in Pentesting and RedTeaming field, and ISO 27k Control Audits.
- First place at LPRO Days 2018 at University of Vigo with Lights Detection. This project born to become a prototype of an assistive technology which use image processing to determine if a blind person could or not cross the road according to the color of pedestrian traffic lights.
- Second place at Hack For Good Vigo 2018 with Lights Detection project.
- Involved in the organization team of ViCON Cybersecurity Congress.
- Speaker at Congreso Estatal de Estudiantes de Telecomunicación (CEET).
- Speaker at Pont-UP – Start-up & Innovation Campus Fair.
- Head of Organization of Foro Tecnolóxico de Emprego at University of Vigo.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/olalla-sanchez/
Interview about ethical hacking: https://bit.ly/2Vj1DOX
Interview about digital divide: https://bit.ly/2H6r7Xb
Interview about Telecommunication Engineering: https://bit.ly/2CLsyXu

Ana is currently a full-time researcher, for the next five years (01/2017 - 12/2021), within a self-proposed project, entitled “TagUBig-Taming your Big data” and accepted for funding in the ambit of Programa Investigador FCT 2015 – Starting Grant (Portuguese Science Foundation).
She is an IT specialist at the Informatics’ Service, at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal, since 2004 (currently on a no paid leave).
Ana is a member of the Centre for Health Technologies and Services’ Research (CINTESIS) from the University of Porto, since 2007, and has successfully participated as a researcher in: 3 internationally funded projects (2 European and the other from Luxembourg), 5 projects funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) and 6 other national projects funded by other entities. She is the author of 103 scientific publications (52 as a first author), 84 of which are indexed in Thomson Reuters and/or Scopus databases, with an ISI h-index of 9 and a SCOPUS h-index of 13.
Ana has a Post-doc from the SnT – Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, at the University of Luxembourg, within the research project entitled: Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust (STAST), from FNR - Fondation Nationale de Rechérche, since 2015, a joint supervision PhD in Computer Science from the Universities of Porto (Faculty of Science) and Kent, UK, since 2010, and detains an MSc in Information Security, with Distinction, from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, since 2002.
She is currently responsible for 2 curricular units of the Health Data Science (HEADS) Doctoral Program at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto. She has experience in teaching various medical informatics’ subjects to undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Medicine course, at the same University, where she has created the module of information security for healthcare systems, together with the corresponding materials, which is being taught there since 2003.
She obtained 8 scholarships to support her academic education (5 for the PhD, 1 for the Post-doc and 2 for participation in USA conferences), 1 distinction and 11 prizes: (1) a Best Student Paper Award – HEALTHINF2019, (2) a Best communication award at 4th IPLeiria Int Health Congress 2018, (3) a Best poster award at ICEIS2018, (4) SPAIC – ASTRAZENECA 2017 – FRASIS – Monitorização da função respiratória na asma utilizando os sensores integrados do smartphone, (5) & (6) two Best paper awards at ICISSP2019 and Human Computer Interaction International 2015, (7) an honourable mention of the prize Ensaio CNPD2012, (8) the 1st place in the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge: “Research for Practical Use”, PhD category, in October 2010, (9) the prize Fernandes Costa with "ICU: Informação Clínica do Utente", in 2005, (10) the prize "Hospital do Futuro", for the best e-government initiative in Healthcare, in 2004/2005, and (11) “Jorge Manuel de Jesus Rodrigues”. Pharmaceutical and chemical products’ wholesalers. Best student of the area of Informatics’ at Oliveira Martins High School. Academic year of 1992/93.
Also, Ana is a CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional, since 2004, and a HCISPP – Healthcare Information Security and Privacy Practicioner, since 2018.